{"id":2817,"date":"2004-10-20T13:29:33","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T18:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2817.html"},"modified":"2004-10-20T13:29:33","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T18:29:33","slug":"waxman-must-have-the-best-staff-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/waxman-must-have-the-best-staff-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Waxman must have the best staff in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats on the House Government Reform Committee, led by the irreplaceable Henry Waxman, sure do know how to put together a good report.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.reform.house.gov\/IraqOnTheRecord\/\">&#8220;Iraq on the Record&#8221;<\/a> research was impeccable, as was the work on the White House&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.reform.house.gov\/features\/politics_and_science\/index.htm\">war on science<\/a>, and unprecedented <a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.reform.house.gov\/features\/secrecy_report\/index.asp\">penchant for secrecy<\/a>. Now, Waxman &#038; Co. have done it again, this time with some incredibly quick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.reform.house.gov\/Documents\/20041018110009-13637.pdf\">research on the flu vaccine<\/a> (.pdf), or in this case, the lack thereof.<\/p>\n<p>If there was any doubt about the salience of Kerry&#8217;s charges that Bush has dropped the ball on the flu vaccine problem, Waxman makes a devastating case. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markarkleiman.com\/archives\/flu_vaccine_\/2004\/10\/the_facts_about_flu_from_henry_waxman.php\">Mark Kleiman noted<\/a>, there&#8217;s information in this report that isn&#8217;t well known, but should be.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Did you know that in 2001 the Institute of Medicine recommended the creation of a National Vaccine Authority, and that the Bush Administration took no action on that recommendation?<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that in 2002 the GAO recommended that the FDA create a fast-track process for vaccine approvals, and that the Bush Administration took no action on that recommendation?<\/p>\n<p>Me neither. But Congressman Henry Waxman knows, and documents, those facts, and additional ways in which the Bush Administration was asleep at the switch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush was warned this was coming, but blew off experts&#8217; concerns. Where have we heard this before? Of yeah, now I remember &#8212; with pre-9\/11 warnings about bin Laden, and the uncertainty about WMD in Iraq, and the likelihood of an insurgency post-Saddam, and the effects of his environmental policies, and the effects of his tax cuts on the budget&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats on the House Government Reform Committee, led by the irreplaceable Henry Waxman, sure do know how to put together a good report. The &#8220;Iraq on the Record&#8221; research was impeccable, as was the work on the White House&#8217;s war on science, and unprecedented penchant for secrecy. Now, Waxman &#038; Co. have done it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}